It's 1 PM on a Tuesday in New York City's Midtown West. The lobby doors to imposing office buildings open up. The trickle of lunch-break bound employees, ranging from executives to interns, swells as more people leave the office seeking food. Lines stretch from the multiple, conveniently located food trucks. The hungry workforce is out looking for a quick meal that doesn't bore them. Folks scan their options: Italian sandwiches, Greek platters, chorizo and egg wraps, Bengali-spiced whitefish, Korean BBQ tacos. The list goes on...

We are continually asked by our readers what the keys are to food truck business success. The answer we give is often rather vague and for a specific reason. There is no set list of rules to operating the perfect food truck. Their are a lot of common traits held by successful food truck owners and many of them run their businesses in similar ways…but there has yet to be a list of best practices that anyone can pick up and use to become successful. In this article we have gathered 15 keys that many of the most successful food trucks use as a basis for the business decisions they make.

You've got delicious tacos! Or your grandma's biscuit recipe! Or farm-fresh radishes and beets! Whatever it is, Food Moves is here to connect your business to the consumers. Let's bring home the bacon.